IRONY ALERT!! Perry castigates those who perpetuate lies.
In today’s Austin-American Statesman, Governor Perry castigated those who perpetuate lies in order to distract people from the conversations that should be happening. Specifically, the Governor starts off the editorial by stating: “One proven tactic of propaganda is that if you want to distract people from the conversation you should be having, don’t be afraid to lie … and lie big.”
SEE: http://www.statesman.com/opinion/perry-learn-to-separate-fact-from-fiction-1474089.html
Well, if anyone knows that tactic, it is the Governor and his staff. As I pointed out in my most recent blog post, Perry flat-out lied about the ratio of administrators to teachers. And, I argue that he did so to distract voters from questioning the Governor’s culpability in creating the serious budget issues facing schools. Rather than admitting that there is a structural deficit in how we raise revenue for education as pointed out by a number of media, legislators, and education officials (1), the Governor would rather blame educators for a bloated